Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-10
Letter from Faunuier.

Correspondence OF the Alexandra GAZErrEl.
ORLEAN, March 7th, 1SS7.-Rev. A. M.
Grimsly, who has been pastor of the Bap-
tist Church near this village for nearly
twenty eight years, preached an eloquent
and thrilling discourse from the following
words: Lord to whom shall we so, Thou
hast the words of eternal life" on last Sab.
bath. He is brother of Elder Barnett
Grimsly, who richly earned the encomium
given him, "the old man eloquent" At times
Rev. A. NJ. Grimsley remind one very for
chilly of his brother, not so much in delivery
as in the matter of his sermons. 1t makes
very little difference as to the weather or
condition of the roads, Mr.. Grimsly has a full
house. He is certainly one Of the most pop
ular preachers of the Piedmont section of
the State. Though living twenty miles dis
tant from his church he did not miss but
one appointment during the year OF 1886.
Mr.. Claiming Smith was appointed by
James Turner, TO fill the udexpired term as
Clerk of the School Board of Trustees, which
place Mr.. Smith accepted and would have
filled with credit to himself, and saLislacto-
rly with the people. However, at the FIRST
meeting of the board the legality of
the appointment was raised by the
present clerk, and Mr. Smith, resigned
the place, and the present clerk was
elected to gil the place by his own vote and
that OF Doctor Stephenson. The law
in regard to trustees is certainly de-
fective Trustees ought to BIO paid for
their work, and then ii would not be diff
iicu!t matter to secure good men for the pc
fi'ion.
Mr.. J. M. Daniel, candidate for the coun.
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and attended social party at Mr.. G. L..
Hollands, and dscoursed sweet music from
his banjo. Mr. Daniel has superb voice,
and his plantation" songs were we'll re-
ceived and highly enjoyed by all who had
the pleasure of hearing him.
Owing TO the long continued wet weather
great deal of sickness prevails in this COM
munity, and our physicians are kept CORES.
pondingy busy.
Our roads are well nigh impossible.
Messrs. Franklin Rector's aud Thomas
Thorpe's focks of sheep We're raided by
dogs few nights since. The ours succeed
ed in killing several old sheep and lambs.
Snow was on the ground at the time, and
the dogs were tracked or rather chased, to
the house of their owners One was killed
after reaching its house, and the other two,
belonging TO another man were followed
right up to the house, bnt the owner refused
to let them be killed. A few nights later
the same dogs again raided the flock of
sheep belonging to Mr. Thomas Thorpe,
and killed all Of his flock with one excep-
ton. Mr.. Thorpe will make an effort TO
make the owner of the dogs pay for the last
lot of sheep killed as the man knowingly
harbored sheep killing dogs.
We noticed statement in the GAZETTE
of March fifth that the belled buzzard that
that had been seen in Virginia several times
had been killed in Maryland. The Virginia
beled buzzard is still in the land OF the lv-
ing and was was seen by your correspon-
dent, and several others last week. We saw
it on Friday, the fourth of March. 1t has
been in this section since last fall.
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